{"id":189398,"date":"2025-01-23T13:56:59","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T11:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-saudi-arabia-sponsors-20-nigerians-for-umrah\/"},"modified":"2025-01-23T13:56:59","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T11:56:59","slug":"nigeria-saudi-arabia-sponsors-20-nigerians-for-umrah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-saudi-arabia-sponsors-20-nigerians-for-umrah\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Saudi Arabia Sponsors 20 Nigerians for Umrah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\"><em>As part of its dedication to promoting Islamic unity and facilitating access to Islam&#8217;s most sacred sites for Muslims around the world, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Embassy in Abuja hosted a farewell ceremony for 20 Nigerian pilgrims selected for the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques&#8217; Guests Programme for Umrah 2025.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">In a statement, it said the ceremony, which was held under the leadership of His Excellency Faisal bin Ibrahim Al-Ghamdi, Saudi Ambassador to Nigeria, highlighted the Kingdom&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501230355.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of its dedication to promoting Islamic unity and facilitating access to Islam&#8217;s most sacred sites for Muslims around the world, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Embassy in Abuja hosted a farewell ceremony for 20 Nigerian pilgrims selected for the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques&#8217; Guests Programme for Umrah 2025. In a statement, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":189399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,10999,257,4687,393,6665,9388,254,14535,28407],"class_list":["post-189398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arabia","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerians","tag-saudi","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sponsors","tag-umrah"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}